The BIF-4 Collaborative Innovation Summit will be held on October 15-16, 2008 in Providence, Rhode Island. With co-hosts Bruce Nussbaum and Bill Taylor at the helm, BIF-4 promises to be the best BIF summit yet...

...Bruce Nussbaum is an Assistant Managing Editor for BusinessWeek, responsible for coverage of design and innovation. Previously, he was editorial page editor, a position he assumed in February 1993. He is also an essayist and commentator on economic and social issues. Mr. Nussbaum, who joined BusinessWeek in 1977, is responsible for the coverage of the annual Industrial Designers Excellence Awards, the BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Awards for architecture, and The World's Most Innovative Companies survey. He leads workshops on design and innovation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

...Co-Author of Mavericks at Work, Taylor is a provocative and inspiring voice on the future of business - an agenda-setting writer, speaker, and entrepreneur who has shaped the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate, and succeed. As a cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company, Taylor launched a magazine that won countless awards, and earned a passionate following among executives and entrepreneurs around the world.